[Biojava-l] Introducing a mutation in a DNA sequence

[Peter Cock]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 10:01 AM, LAW Andy <andy.law at roslin.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
> I think the philosophical view on this is that the mutated sequence
> is a *new* and *different* sequence.

Biopython has two explicit object models, Seq (read only) and
MutableSeq (editable) with similar APIs, which in part reflects the
fact that in Python strings themselves are immutable (read only).

Peter